What is the story of District 9? Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth -- not to conquer or give aid, but -- to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent Sharlto Copley contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.
Who is the bad guy in District 9? Sharlto Copley. What do the aliens eat in District 9? They also have a very strong liking of cat food, which has an effect on the aliens that is similar to the effect of catnip on cats.
In many deals with the local human gangs, Prawns will trade their weapons and technology in exchange for cat food. How did Wikus get infected? Christopher discloses that the fluid in the canister is fuel which would allow him to reactivate the dormant mothership and reverse Wikus' mutation. As we saw in the movie only Wikus transforms into an alien. The Fluid is a liquid that seems to fuel everything that the Prawns use like their weapons and ships. What is the fluid in District 9?
Wikus goes into an alien shack to find computer parts hanging from the walls. The computer parts are a symbol that he is creating technology that is far more advanced than what is allowed in the slum and Wikus investigates immediately and finds the black fluid that turns him into a prawn. After Wikus's exposure to the fluid, we see Wikus a few hours later eating like he's been starved. Suddenly a black liquid falls from his nose.
It is a symbol that he is beginning to change from the inside out into one of the aliens. That what splashed together is far more dangerous than he is making it out to be. Wikus goes into the hospital to get a check up after vomiting at his birthday party and passing out. It's discovered that he has a claw and is turning into a Prawn. The MNU then stuffs him into a black bag and takes him away. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search.
I realize, in general - apartheid, I get it. But was there anything more subtle that someone closer to the culture and politics in South Africa picked up that general audiences around the world would not? I think the film may be making more of a general statement regarding the feelings of South Africa regarding issues with illegal immigration, first from Rhodesia and then from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Nigeria.
As I understand it they have major issues with South Africans lashing out at the migrants in the form of riots. As a response to this a number of camps were established to "house" the migrants. This story from the BBC website gives more specific details. The general description of the camps sounds disturbingly similar to the conditions of District 9.
These events riots and camps occurred in I'm not convinced the film is even really concerned with apartheid. It's concerned primarily with an external population coming in and creating a nuisance as opposed to apartheid where an external population came in and totally rebuilt society.
What if the migrant population DOESN'T want to assimilate but retain their own cultural values in the face of an established society?
Do you allow them to starve on the street? Do you evict them to a fate of certain death or torture. If there is no land willing to accept them do you march them into the sea? He can convey the force of personality, the charm and the charisma. He has the Mandela air. While Invictus, due for release early next year, will doubtless end on a high note, some feel that Mandela's legacy has been squandered by his successors.
The African National Congress mastered the poetry of liberation, it is said, but has proved less eloquent in the prose of governing. Carlin, however, remains mostly upbeat.
This year's election was generally held to be free and fair. I still think it's amazing after 15 years. When I interviewed Desmond Tutu he said that when you see black and white kids playing together in schools, it lifts your heart. But we could have done it all so much better. It was a colossal misfortune that Thabo Mbeki was Mandela's successor.
Freeman, though, is only the most high-profile actor who is immortalising Mandela on screen. Harewood says: "We had white members of the cast and crew who said they knew nothing about this story. Maybe these films can tell South Africans something about their own history.
Mrs Mandela's title role is taken by Sophie Okonedo, who has already been seen this year in Skin, playing Sandra Laing in one of apartheid's most haunting stories. Laing was a black child born in the s to a white Afrikaner couple.
They raised her as a "white" girl but she was ostracised at school, reclassified as "coloured" and expelled. Her father fought for years in court and finally had the classification reversed, but was heartbroken when Laing eloped with a black man.
Now in her 50s, Laing owns her own home and has received substantial money from the film-makers, but she is still estranged from her brothers. Why return to this story now? Anthony Fabian, director of Skin, says: "Many people tried to dissuade me from making the film because they said apartheid's over. But don't forget there's a whole generation of kids who've grown up since apartheid.
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